"Hand of God" brings Argentina pope - Maradona

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"Hand of God" brings Argentina pope - Maradona

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/hand-god-brings-argentina-pope-maradona-124105507--sow.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2VGkijVMllaEKARLnr92sg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-14T124105Z_1_CBRE92D0Z8K00_RTROPTP_2_OUKOE-UK-POPE-MARADONA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Former Argentine soccer star Maradona waves as he appears on a balcony in Naples" align="left" title="Former Argentine soccer star Maradona waves as he appears on a balcony in Naples" border="0" /></a>ROME (Reuters) - The same &quot;hand of God&quot; brought the papacy to Argentina as helped it to the 1986 World Cup, says Diego Maradona, the football legend whose famously illicit, handled goal against England still excites passions at home and abroad. In a letter to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper on Wednesday from his base in Dubai, Maradona, 52, described himself as a devout Roman Catholic and said he rejoiced at the election of his compatriot Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis. &quot;I am truly very happy and I am certain that my enthusiasm is shared by the whole Argentinian people,&quot; he wrote. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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